Shade-roller bracket.



M. A. STEWART.

SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.20,19 09.

1,070,746. Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEY.

MATTHEW A. STEWART, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

Application filed September 20, 1909. Serial No. 518,632.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW A. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Shade-Roller Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of window shade brackets which are commonly employed in pairs upon a window frame to support the opposite ends of a shade roller and also carry a curtain pole or rod.

The objects of the invention are to secure a bracket which can be adjusted to different lengths of shade rollers without changing its position upon the window frame; to at the same time secure a firm seating of the window shade in the brackets, so that the shade is not liable to be loosened or displaced; to enable the position of the shade roller to be varied or two rollers to be mounted in the brackets at the same time; to provide brackets whose body port-ions can be employed at either side of the window and do not have to be made in rights and lefts; to provide means in connection with the bracket for adjustably supporting a curtain rod or pole; to provide a bracket with a foot which can be shifted upon the window frame without changing the positions of the fastening screws, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved brackets mounted on a window frame, and supporting both a window shade and a curtain rod, the whole being broken through the middle to economize space; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the brackets from its end away fro-m the shade roller and with the shade roller and curtain rod removed; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the bracket as shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 1 is a view of the inner end of the adjustable member of the right hand bracket, showing in dotted lines how two shade rollers may be simultaneously mounted in the member, and Fig. 5 is a view of the inner end of the adjustable member of the left hand shade bracket.

In said drawings, 10 indicates a window frame to the upper part of which at the opposite sides of the window the right hand bracket 12 and left hand bracket 11 are fastened. Each of these brackets has a body portion 13 or 14, and since these body portions are identical a description of one of them, as 13, will suflice. Said body portion 13, therefore, has a foot or base 15 adapted to engage the frame 10 and which foot has at its opposite upper and lower edges pairs of opposite recesses 16, 17 and 18 adapted to receive fastening screws 19. Since there is a series of the opposite recesses, the bracket can obviously be adjusted considerably upon the window frame without making new holes therein for the screws 19, by shifting the foot with respect to the screws, when 1oos ened. From the said base 15 a post 20 projects outward from the window frame and is provided with a transverse cylindrical sleeve 21 disposed horizontally and parallel to the window frame. This sleeve 21 receives the stem or shank 22 of the adjustable member of the shade bracket, said member having at the inner end of said stem a transverse head 23 which is perforated to receive the end pivots of the roller 24 of the shade 25. These adjustable members are of course right hand and left-hand, the right hand member having in its head 23 simple round holes 26 for the round pivot 27 at the righthand end of a shade roller, and the left-hand member having in its head 29 slots 30 for the flattened pivot 31 at the left-hand end of the roller. Preferably the holes 26, and the slots 30, are arranged in series along a diametric line of the head 23, or 29, and thus the shade can be varied in its position with respect to the window, or two shades mounted in the brackets at the same time.

At the front of each cylindrical sleeve 21 of the bracket body portions are two bosses 32, 33, one of which, preferably the one next the shade roller, as 32, is tapped clear through to the interior of the sleeve 21 to receive a set screw 34 adapted to engage the stem 22 of the adjustable member. To prevent the said stem 22 from rotating, the same may be grooved, as at .35, (or at 36 on the stem 28 of the adjustable member of the lefthand bracket), to receive the end of the set screw, or otherwise formed in an equivalent manner. The other or outer boss 33 has a vertical perforation or socket 37 which is adapted to receive the end of a support for a curtain rod or pole 38, as shown. Preferably said support has a round end 39 to fit in said perforation 37 and rotate therein, and a set screw 40 is provided at the front of the boss 83 for clamping against said end 39 to prevent it from turning. The rest of the support for the curtain rod, or pole may be of any suitable and well-known construetion adapted to receive any common form of pole or rod, but for purposes of illustration I have shown the entire support made of heavy wire with a horizontal middle part 41 and a vertical end 42, adapted to enter a transverse hole 43 in the curtain rod. Said curtain rod 38 being in sections 44, d5 which slide upon each other, it can be brought nearer to the window frame or farther away by swinging its supports on their ends 39 after the clamping screws 40 have been loosened. Obviously up and down adjustment of the curtain rod in a vertical direction is also provided for by making the ends 3950f considerable length.

In using my invention, the bracket body portions are se'curedto the window frame at a distance apart considerably greater than the length of theshade roller, and then said roller having been brought between the heads 23, 29 of the adjustable members, said adjustable members are slid into engagement therewith and their set screws tightened. The curtain pole or rod is independently mounted upon its supports, and then said supports, are adjusted to bring the rod into desired position, both vertically and horizontally with respect to the shade roller or window. frame, and the clamping screws 40 tightened.

Obviously there may be considerable variat-ion in the length of shades which can all bemounted in my improved brackets with equal, facility.

Obviously, by my invention, a shade can be adjusted toward and away from a window, and the curtain also similarly shifted transverse to the tubular passage of said sleeve a socket adapted to be vertically dis posed" substantially parallel to the plane of the window frame when the bracket is mounted thereon, an adjustable member having a stem in said tubular passage of the sleeve and a head providing a series of seats for shade roller pivots arranged so as to extend away from the window all in such position that any one will receive the pivot of a given shade roller, means for clamping said stem against movement in said sleeve, a curtain rod support having an end rotatably seated in said socket of the body portion, a middle part extending horizontally away from said sleeve and body portion of the bracket and an opposite end bent substantially parallel to the first mentioned end in the opposite direction and forming a pivot adapted to enter a transverse hole or boring in the curtain rod, and a clamping screw in the body portion of the bracket for engaging the end of the curtain rod support mounted therein to hold said support in any angular position to which it may be swung, whereby a shade and a curtain can both be supported in said bracket and adjusted horizontally toward and away from a window without displacement relative to each other.

IVIA'I,,THEW A. STElVAI-LT. In the presence of Russell, M. Evn'nnrr, FRANCES E. Bnonsnr'r.

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